WE URGE CURRENT AND FORMER
RESIDENTS OF POMPTON LAKES, NJ TO ATTEND AS WELL AS THOSE
INTERESTED IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN OUR
COMMUNITY!

The Citizens For A
Clean Pompton Lakes would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to
Congressman Bill Pascrell for his continued support and assistance
to the residents of Pompton Lakes residing in the DuPont
contaminated neighborhoods.

Recent action by the
Congressman:

Congressman
Pascrell contacted EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck. The
Congressman requested that Ms. Enck resolve the issues at-hand
involving the delay the residents are experiencing in obtaining
approval of their private contractor applications for chemical
pre-testing/vapor mitigation. The issues we are living with in the
DuPont contaminated area are of the utmost importance to
the Congressman. We will keep you posted on the progress of the
Congressman's request to Ms. Enck.

Many residents know it is important to move
forward with their contractor-of-choice. Unfortunately, a recent
advertisement in the Suburban Trends by the Pompton Lakes Mayor and
Council neglected to mention that residents can select a qualified
private contractor for chemical pre-testing and vapor mitigation as
an alternative to DuPont's contractor O'Brien and
Gere!

If you are feeling pressured to use O'Brien
and Gere, remember there are alternatives! You do not have to
select DuPont's contractor for testing and
mitigation!

Ms. Darcy Kamp, our treasurer, was the first
resident to submit her paperwork to move forward with her
contractor. She has been going through this process since April
2010. Other applications have been submitted since that
date.

Issues that
still need to be addressed:

1. It isNOT OK that the lifetime warranty that
is being offered by DuPont, if you use their contractor O'Brien and
Gere, is not offered when you use a reputable-knowledgeable private
contractor. The same lifetime warranty should be available no
matter what contractor installs the mitigation system. We did not
pollute our neighborhood DuPont
did!

2. Pricing guidelines are still too low to perform
the work to safely test and mitigate your homes! Since every
home is different in size, design, basement types, some have French
drains etc, it is unfair to expect contractors to install every
system for virtually the same price.

3. Chemical pre-testing
issues - Two types of tests are being performed.
Air
sampling and the crucial test - soil sub-slab
testing. DuPont's contractor is testing for 61
chemicals in their air sample testing and ONLY 10 chemicals in
soil-slab testing. That's 51 additional chemicals being tested for
in the Air Sampling that are not being tested for in the Soil
Sub-Slab test. If you receive high readings with any
of the additional 51 chemicals it will be IMPOSSIBLE to determine
exactly where they came from if they were not part of the Soil
Sub-Slab test.

Household items/cleaners can come into play when air
sampling is done and it is much easier to blame a high reading
on items that could be in your household. Therefore, it extremely
important that the 61 chemical-test be performed also in soil
sub-slab testing! This
need to be immediately resolved!

Our local officials are
aware of theseconcerns so that's why it's
puzzling that they would omit the "private contractor/third party
option" from their Suburban Trends advertisement. After all, they
are responsible for the content of the advertisement which bares
their names.

(Please see the
left hand column to read this advertisement, under LBG Letter
9-10-2010).

Private contractors are
hard-at-work trying to obtain all that is needed so we can receive
the proper chemical pre-testing, system design, installation and
monitoring for our homes/properties. With their hard work, the support and
efforts of Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr., Senators Lautenberg and
Menendez, along withyour support and
efforts, we must get these issues
resolved.